Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 17 January 1934 — Page 1

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lITRACTS FOB ■UARESAME |S PAST YEAR Meet V\ ith ( al■d Today: Work ■ Starts At Once ■ment dates U \RI I \( H WGED K>. first '°34 beet contract K gned b» Sheriff Burl Johnhis 'arm tenant. Mrs JM, Ivetich. The contract ■|K| er 20 a res and was writ -Mt,E L Harlacher. fieldman s c t> Mrs. Ivetich and r. I cultivate .he enBjiugar btet tract. The JohnH;- s located south of De- ■ nut liim of the fieltl■ol Um Central Sugar ■m\ lu hl at the com- ■, otin> in this citv this t Il" II stigtir beet ■cl was announced and Kp mail' tu obtain MMi bil ls this vear. 1 and inan1 pat nt to growers sann- in the I'J.'B I . 1 -sideil ' -a. nsseil with • .divisions of the * milt radius ■ ■ - will begin M ill.ind stated. k . I tile lon. filly per - I fr. .tn sale of sugar. I I - meats InB i contract. The Bl'-j' dollars per h'- December 15. delivered to the ah a November "0. The "'! payment of four : delivered after ,|. H | t,, December 30. it .1.-miiry 15. 1'135. ■; -’t"’'. payment will be :: of a s large b“ il payment is to ' I'- lan r than July 15. i ' s generally i ill mB ' between th ■” - -ewer, since bo'll net proceeds , 1V six> ■CUSTOM IS ■nderattack B velt Com|B^ eei nen Practicing In \\ ashington n ston. ,j un — (UP) |M" ! R.ceveit struck eharpasa -t the custom of Na- ' ttmn establishing IM,"’ as !aw .'-ers in the shacapitol. is opposed to the ” was revealed at the T ijs revelation came o ' l ’lto a- tion of secretary “ Wllh Persons in his dell rf hi'lent s attidude became t 0 Questions to- : las bppn m ” ch gossip nt ‘ w ' spap( “ r , ' <nnmp nt on • ‘ " Politico-lawyers in ■"'"'stration although in no ■ h ’ th ® custom of ifractic IHnrs ? >een PX Panded since also fro- ■ th? ° ffPre(i ,heir taicaptal. ■2° Sevelt ’ 8 attitude on the in the nature ON PAgL’f?VE)*'’

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LACK FUNDS TO BUILD SHELTER Citv Lacks Funds to Build Shelter House At Hanna Park The city does not have available funds for the building of a shelter house in Hanna-Nuttman park, according to a report filed by the finance committee of the council I last evening. The appropriation would have to be made out of the general fund, councilman state. The balance in this account does not warrant the expenditure at this time, officials stated. The councilmen explained that the city would be called on to expend approximately $20,000 to, buHd the new water mains and electric line to the Decatur Homestead division and that the electric light and water departments . would be called on to advance the money for these improve- . ments. The water department is ' now spending more than $5,000 for material needed in laying new mains in the south part of the city, it was stated. ! The bonds of City Clerk Alice ■ Christen and City Treasurer Ada Martin for 1934 were filed and referred to the finance committee. The proof of publication relative to the establishing of the four wards in the city was filed and placed on record. The dividing lines of the wards run south from North Second street to Studebakstreet, east to Winchester street and then to the south cornoration tipe. Jhe north and side ■ dividing line is Madison street, west from E'irst street to the j corporation line. The council moved to sell the old unloader at the Nickel Plate railroad tracks to Yost Bros., for SSO. exclusive of the motor. The CONTINUED TO FADE FIVE COURT RULING JS PERMANENT Marion Countv Judge Is Restrained From Halting Arrests Indianapolis. Jan. 17—(U.PJ —The* state supreme court today made permanent a writ of prohibition restraining Judge Joseph R. Wil- , liams of Marion county superior ! court from interfering with arrests of motorists with 1933 license plates. Judge Williams issued a temporary injunction Jan. 5 restraining state, Marion countv and Indianapolis city officials from arresting motorists who had failed to procure 1934 license plates by Jan. 1. His order was to have been . effective until Jan. 15 but the su-. I preme court issued a' temporary writ of prohibition Jan. S which nullified action of the lower court. Four of the five supreme court judges concurred in the opinion today. They contended that the superior court did not have juris- ■ diction and could not restrain law enforcement officers from making ; arrests and prosecuting law vio- 1 lators. Judge Qpvtd A. Meyer dissented. “I do not feel Jhat the supreme ’ court should declare the superior court without jurisdiction since ' this was an extra-ordinary action.” he said. ‘‘The fact that the suit was filed in the superior court gave ' the court jurisdiction, in my I ’ opinion.” Prison Guard Is Cleared Os Blame Michigan City. Ind., Jan. 17 —' ’ (UP) —Warden Louis E. Kunkel today exonerated Albert Such, a guard at the Indiana State prison, from any blame in connection with the attempted escape of two convicts yesterday. Such was questioned after the prisoners started to scale the wall near his watch tower by means of wooden planks which they had spliced together. Kunikel and two other prison offi- , cials witnessed the attempted es- ’ I cape and called it to the attention, of Such.

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Dillinger Gang Raids Bank ■Hk Police of two states were pressing a search for John Dillinger and members of his gang, following a daring raid on the First National Bank of East Chicago. Ind., in which they killed Policeman Patrick O'Malley and escaped with $20,377 of the bank's funds. Picture on the left shows police officers with some of the guns that weie discarded by the bandits. On the left is shown Waller Spencer, vice president of the bank, who was used as a shield by the bandits.

DENTISTS AID j HEALTH NURSES Offer Services Free In Examination Os School Children Dentists will cooperate with the two county health nurses m examining the teeth of children in the Decatur. Berne and Geneva schools. The nurses will examine the children in the rural schools of the county. Decatur dentists will begin examinations next Wednesday. Each dentist is offering his services free of charge. Blanks showing the result of i, 'he examination of the teeth will ; be given to each child with the re-; quest that he deliver it to his parents. The need for treatment will be checked on the blanks. Organization for the free examination by ethical members of the dental profession, of 573,510 Indiana children enrolled in the public grade schools, kindergartens and parochial schools is in the program of cooperation which the Indiana State Dental Association is giving to the American Dental Association and the United States Public Health Service. Headquarters for the survey have been established in the offices of Dr. E. E. Voyles, presi- i dent of the State Dantal Association. Indianapolis, from which instructions and supplies have been sent to officers of district and county dental societies. Endorsements of the dental (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) DELAY HEARING TOJANUARY3I — Rate Reduction Hearing Is Postponed For One Week —_ The hearing of the city's peti-i tion to reduce the light and power rates of the municipal plant has been postponed to Wednesday, January 31. | ] Legal notice of the hearing is publisjied in today’s Daily Derno- - crat. The hearing will be held at 10 o'clock at the city hall. The hearing was originally set for January 24. but because the i Indiana Public Service Commis- ' ' sion required tint? a legal notice be given, the date was postponed one week. City Attorney J. Fred Fruchte talked with Pete Dawson, examin- 1 er for the commission, this morn-1' inc and it was agreed that the; ’ hearing should be carried over,' until the last day of the month, j The city is petitioning that the lirht and power rates be reduced, 1 effective with February reading > of meters. It is estimated that, • the reduction in rates will save 11 the patrons of the plant about j • ' $15,000 a year. p

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Students Take Part In School Playlet Muncie, January 17 —(Special)— i Raymond C. Borne of Decatur and Dolores E. Longenberger of Mom roe played important roles in "The : Butter and Egg Woman,” a one- j act play that featured the Wednes- , day morning convocation program at Ball State Teachers College. The , program was sponsored by the Country Life Club. Mr. Borne graduated from Kirkland high school in 1931 and is a member of the sophomore class at [ Ball State. Miss Longenberger who graduated from the Monroe high scihoo. in 1932 is a sophomore at Ball State. DEATH CLAIMS JOSEPH WINANS Aged Decatur Resident Dies Today After Eight Weeks Illness Joseph Franklin Winans. 78, a' resident of Decatur for 42 years, died at the home of his daughter. | Mrs. Jesse Niblick. 308 North I Fifth street, Wednesday morning at 5 o’clock following an eight weeks illness. Death was due to paralysis. Mr. Winans was a wel’ known brick mason in this city and had worked on many constructions here and throughout the county. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Winans was born at Pleasant Mills on February 22, 1855. a ■ son of Joseph Ross Winans anil f Nancy Heath Winans. His marriage to Eleanor McCullough took place in Adams county on November 22. 1878. Mrs. Winans preceded her husband in death seven vears ago. Since that time Mr. Winans had made liis home with a son in Fort Wayne and with the; daughter, Mrs. Niblick in tins city. ; Surviving are the following chil-1 dren: John Winans of Findlay, j Ohio; Quincy and Edwin Winans l of Fort Wayne; Fred Winans of Muncie; Mrs. M. B. Large of Kala- 1 mazoo, Michigan; Mrs. Roland ■; Kenny of Chicago; Mrs. L. DJi Clark of Dayton, Ohio; Albert |l Winans and Mrs. Jesse Niblick of ■ i Decatur. One daughter died in l infancy. Two brothers, William and 1 1 James Winans of Kansas, also (CONTTNTTF7D nN PAGE PTX) - - 1 J« Shoemaker Speaks At Regular Meeting 1 Kenneth Shoem'alker, Geneva, gave a highly interesting address ; on "The Teacher Nobody Knows” at the regular monthly meeting of Adams county school principals, held at Monroe Tuesday evening The program included two selections by the Monroe high school chorus, two violin solos by Floyd Johnson and a number by the high school girls’ quartet. Twelve per- j sons attended the supper and pro-, gram. ■

CORN SEALERS ARE APPOINTED Dan Tyndall And Wesley Neuenschwander Named In This County | Indianapolis. Jan. 17 — (U.R) —; Appointment of 16.8 Indiana corn 1 I sealers, to padlock cribs containing corn used as collateral for; federal loans, was announced last i night by Gov. Paul V. McNutt. Sealers for seven counties, De- ' Kalb. Dubois, Jay, Lagrange, | Marion. St. Joseph and Warrick, have not be«n selected, the announcement said. The sealers will receive instructions at a meeting in the house of representatives chamber here tomorrow. W. S. Bradley of the federal department of agriculture at Washington will be the principal speaker. Duties of the corn sealers will be to weigh and seal corn upon i which Indiana flartners want to i obtain Federal corn loans. When the loans mature they may repay the loan or turn the corn over to the government. Under terms of the contract, ; farmers agree to curtail corn and hog production and in return they are given a bonus by the government. Corn production must be slashed 20 per cent under the 1932 ; and 1933 average and the number of hog litters must be reduced at least 25 per cent under the same years. The government will pay 30 cents a bushel for corn that «♦ • • 'CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) AGREEMENT IN MILK PRICES Arbitration Board Members Reach Agreement For Lower Prices Chicago. Jan. 17.— (U.R) — Settlement of the Chicago milk strike ■ controversy was accomplished in the announcement of a > agreement on a new schedule of prices, effective today, to be paid for fluid milk. The agreement was reached by members of an arbitration board. A reduction in price was decided upon tor the producers. It was the threat of reduced prices that resulted in members of the Pure Milk Association. Dairymen’s Cooperative, calling the recent strike. The producers, however, were not expected to rebel against the new schedule of prices, since they won several important concessions before the arbitration was started. The new prices were expected to result in a lower price for milk to. the consumer. The present price of 11 cents a quart was expected to fall to nine or 10 cents a quart. Under the new price agreement, the producers will receive $1.85 per hundred pounds for fluid milk or ' * ’continued’ on’paqe Fivai *'

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NELLIE FISHER SEEKS PAYMENT IN DEATH CASE Widow of Late Amos Fisher Seeks Compensation Payment FISHER DROWNED LAST SEPTEMBER The case of Mrs. Nellie Fisher, widow of t ie late Amos Fisher, city •street commissioner, seeking compensation insurance as a result of her husband's death by drowning in a spray pool at the city plant was scheduled to be heard before the .n liana Industrial Board in the Adams Circuit court this afternoon. Mayor George Krick received word that members of the Industrial board would arrive here about '2:30 o'clock and plans were being made to start the hearing as soon as the representatives arrived. Mr. Fisher's death occurred September 6. 1933. He fell into a pool of about five feet of water at the I city plant. An autopsy was held and physicians pronounced death due to drowning. The city of IMcatur carries compensation insurance on its employes with the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corp.. ltd.. New York. Mrs. Fisher seeks compensation based on the Indiana workmen's ' comtpenaation law, provlditHg for payments not to exceed 55 per cent of the yearly salary of an insured person for a period not to exceed 300 weeks. The maximum amount j that may be obtained on any claim is $5,000. Mayor Krick was not advised who would hear the case. J. Fred Fruc.ite, together with attorneys for the insurance company will reprepresent the defendants. Attorney I Ferd L. Litterer will appear for Mrs. Fisher. o — DECATUR TO GET sll3 IN TAXES State Excise Department Distributes Liquor License Money Indianapolis, Jan. 17 —(U.R) The state excise department today distributed $89,035 in receipts from beer, wine and liquor licen- ; ses and taxes to the general funds of cities, counties and towns throughout the state. An additional $81,777 was set aside to be distributed in May to public schools. This money will be combined with income from the intangibles and gross income tax to be used in paying part of the salaries of public school teachers. Revenue of the excise depart- ' meat in December was $170,813. i it was announced. Os this amount j $64,637 was received from whisky ' taxes; $14,945 from beer license, $3,750 from wholesale wine licenses. $4,700 from retail wine licenses and the remainder from beer taxes. Taxes on whisky and revenue from retail beer and wine licenses and wholesale wine licenses are apportioned among the local genj eral funds while taxes on beer i consumption and malt and wort I go into the school fund. General funds will benefit as ( follows from the distribution of $89,035 today. Cities Auburn $142.50; Bluffton $172; 1 Columbia City S3O; Decatur $113; : Fort Wayne $5,242; Gary $2,355: Hartford City $108; Huntington $466; Kendallville $114; Muncie $1,402. - — German Novelist Under Sentence Leipzig, Germany. Jan. 17. —(U.R) —Ludwig Renn, novelist, was under sentence of 2% years' imprisonment today after conviction by the supreme court of charges of high treason. Renn's real name is Arnold Vieth Von Golsenau, and he is a member of an old noble family. He is 63. His novels based on the World War were widely read in the Unit- , ed States.

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Ben McCullough To Be Candidate Ben McCullough, St. Mary's township assessor, today announced his i candidacy for township trustee,; subject to the Republican nomic- ' a;ion in the primary of Tuesday. .May 8. Mr. McCullough, a resident of I he township all his life, was elected township assessor on the Republican ticket four years ago. H>-; is the first in the county to officially announce his candidacy for any political office. MOVE TO PLACE CHECK ON POWER OF MORGENTHAU Congressmen VV ou 1 d Check Power Under Stabilization Plan SECRET HEARINGS CONTINUE TODAY Washington. Jan. 17 —(UP)— A move was started in congress today to place a check upon the sweeping powers that would be given the secretary of treasury under the $2.000,000,000 (B) stabilization fund proposals of the new Roosevelt gold program. It was learned that support was gathering to a proposal advanced within the Senate Banking and Currency committee that the secretary be made accountable to congress for his stabilization operations. The bill as considered by the committee yesterday states that the secretary's decisions shall be final and not subject to review by any other officer of the United States. The faction desiring a change will strive to have this amended to read not subject to review by an administrative officer, thereby leaving the way open for a review by the legislature. Under the gold reserve act the SB,-000,000,000 stabilization fund would be used for the purchase, sale or negotiation of all types of securities, both domestic end foreign? The object of such operations would be to stabilize the exchange value of the dollar. These stabilization operations are CONTINUKD TO PAGR FIVE o Final Scramble Ad Winners Given The final award in the Scramble ad contest which appeared last week, was awarded to June O’Donnell, 422 South First street, Decatur. A large number of clever entries were received and it was extremely difficult for the judges to arrive at a decision. Honorable mention goes to Miss Lucile Baker. Alice Baker and Ruth Townsend. OVER 500.000 FAMILIES AH Every Effort Being Made To Halt Foreclosures On Homes (Copyright 1934 by United Press) Washington, Jan. 17.— (U.R) More than 500.000 families whose homes are menaced by foreclosure should be made secure under their own roofs by July 31 if potentialities of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation discussed today with the United Press are realized. The figure is unofficial in that no loan quota has been fixed. Chairman John H. Faney of the I corporation said “we are trying to make every safe and sound loan that it is possible to make.; We are reviewing our operations in every state finding out where screws are loose and how they can be tightened.’’ It may be possible to extend $1,500,000,000 of aid to distressed home owners by July 31. Home Owners’ Loan Corporation records show that loans are being extended at the rate of about $3,500,000 daily. During this week ft is to be stepped up. To attain the $1,500,000,000 figure | ’ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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DOCTOR S SON IN HIDING TO AVOID TRIAL Learn Young Wynekoop In Hiding To Prevent Giving Evidence DEFENSE COUNSEL HINTS AT SUICIDE Criminal Court Building, Chicago, .lan. 17 -XU.R) Earle Wvnekoop. whose mother is accused of murdering his wife, deliheratelv is being kept hidden to prevent any possible attempt bv the state io force him Io testify against his mother, the United Press learned today. The son, whom police first suspected of complicity in the death oi RhetJ Wynekoop, is hidden and will remain hidden throughout the state's presentation of its case against Dr. Alice Lindsey Wynekoop. It is possible the young man will testify in his mother’s defense. but this has not yet been decided. Suicide? Attorneys who hope to save Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop from death in tlie electric chair, demanded by the state, hinted in cross examination today that Rheta Wynekoop might have died by her own hand. Examining two police witnesses called by the state, defense counsel W. W. Smith and Milton Smith inquired minutely into the exact position of the slain girl's body on the operating table in the basement of the Wynekoop home where it was first viewed by police. Heeding the admonition of the frail defendant not to "spare me,'' the attorneys reconstructed elaborately in the courtroom the scene of the death chamber. The operating table upon which Rheta's body lay was placed squarely before the 12 jurymen. The pillow on which the girl's (CONTINUED ON PA*GT* FIVE)

HEARS MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL Arguments For New Trial In Lunz Divorce Case Heard Today Arguments for a new trial were being presented by attorneys for Sheriff Fred G. Lunz of Allen county before Judge H. M. De Voss in the Adams Circuit court this afternoon. The opening argument was presented by Attorney Francis Corbett of Fort Wayne. The Lunz divorce trial was heard by Judge De Voss last October and a divorce granted Mrs. Lena Lunz. together wilh $5,000 alimony on November 3, 1933. Divided custody of a 13 year old son of Sheriff and Mrs. Liiz was also ordered by the court. The motion for a new trial was filed December 1. The vase was postponed from the first week in January until today. Mrs. Lunz appeared in court today with her attorneys, Fay W. Leas, chief of counsel. Paul Jasper and Otto Grant. Attorneys for Sheriff Lunz besides Mr. Corbett are Guy Colerick, chief of counsel and Nathan Nelson of this city. Mrs. Lunz in her suit tor divorce also asked for $50,000 alimony. The ease lasted nearly a week and was attended by a number of people from Fort Wayne. Engle Funeral Rites Thursday Funeral services for Mrs. William Engle, 55. of Decatur, who died Monday as the result of an automobile accident at Fiat, Sunday, will be held Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the home and at 2 o'clock at the First Christian Church in charge of S. E. Black. Rev. J. W. Dawson will officiate and burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. Word from Bluffton this afternoon stated that others who were injured in the fatal automobile accident Sunday, patients at the Wells county hospital, are improving. Mrs. Engle was the third victim of the automobile accident.